Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 7 Issue 2
Strapline:
An International Journal
Subject:
Table of contents
The human factor in industrial disaster
Hayim GranotSo much attention is devoted to the cost of industrial disasters in financial terms and to the technologies that fail at times, that it is possible to lose sight of the fact that…
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Hazards in Africa: trends, implications and regional distribution
Elberier O. Mohammed, Babiker A. Abdul RahmanExamines disasters in Africa between 1964 and 1991. Looks at types, trends, distribution and compares natural and man‐made disasters. Data from the office of the US Foreign…
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Mitigating flood losses in the active floodplains of Bangladesh
Paul Thompson, Ian TodThe inhabitants of the active floodplain of Bangladesh’s main rivers receive little government support to help them cope with floods and have developed their own strategies. Major…
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ISSN:
0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju